A black-and-white photograph of a White man wearing a bowler hat and suit holding an old-fashioned camera on a tripod while standing on a crescent moon.

[Photographer]

E. R. Weston

Date

ca. 1890
Object Type

Photographs
Medium

Gelatin silver print
Object Format

Cabinet card
Dimensions

Image: 5 1/2 x 3 3/4 in.
Mount: 6 1/2 x 4 1/4 in.
Inscriptions

Mount, recto:
l.l. printed: E.R. Weston
l.r. printed: CENTREVILLE, / S.D.
Credit Line

Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas
Accession Number

P2019.33
Copyright

Public domain

Acting Out: Cabinet Cards and the Making of Modern Photography

August 15–November 1, 2020

This exhibition offers the first-ever in-depth examination of the 19th-century photographic phenomenon of cabinet cards, examining how this trend in photographic portraiture set the foundation for the snapshot and today’s digital photosharing.

Location: Off view

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